Ponce City Market will hold a coming out party of sorts today on the rooftop of the building formerly known as City Hall East (and before that the Sears building). Late last month, Jamestown Properties quietly completed its long-awaited purchase of the complex and unveiled the new name. But even before Sears built its massive…
I was shocked and saddened to learn via a touching e-mail that Marlin Gottschalk, director of the Georgia DNR Sustainability Division, has died. In my occasional interactions with him, I found Gottschalk to be a warm, knowledgeable man with a integrity and a sense of humor. He headed the state Environmental Protection Division air quality…
When is the level of a LEED certification something a project owner doesn’t want to talk about? For that matter, should companies be given the option to keep such basic information about their LEED projects private even while they seek favorable publicity about them? Those are two question I started to ask after the Atlanta-based…
PodPonics, an Atlanta produce-growing startup, has just signed a lease with the Atlanta Development Authority to move into more spacious digs in the Southside Industrial Park. Well, “digs” may not be the right word, because PodPonics — which currently is located on Ponce de Leon Avenue — apparently needs little more than a bit space…
Porsche made official on Thursday the scoop we’d picked up from Bisnow Atlanta a couple of days earlier: The German sports car maker is moving its North American headquarters from Sandy Springs to Jacoby Development’s new Aerotropolis Atlanta project. Now that the move’s been announced, what interests me is the setting and the architecture. Remember passing…
Suzanne Burnes, a veteran environmental program manager, will become the new leader of Sustainable Atlanta on June 1. The nonprofit — formed in 2007 to partner with the city of Atlanta on environmental policies and programs — has been without an executive director since its founding executive director Lynnette Young left last December. Burnes brings a…
Another great scoop from Bisnow Atlanta. Jarred Schenke caught up with an aide to Mayor Kasim Reed, who finally offered an explanation for the delayed closing between the City of Atlanta and Jamestown Properties over the City Hall East. Not surprisingly, it has a lot to do with the difficulties involved in retrofitting an historic…
The Chicago Tribune reports that Sears Holdings Corp. is talking to Georgia and other states about relocating from its suburban Illinois headquarters. Well shoot, Sears, how about considering this flash-from-the-past on Ponce de Leon Avenue? City Hall East, which is being redeveloped by Jamestown Properties (if the company ever actually closes on the deal), originally served…
Porsche North America appears to be the marquee tenant that Aerotropolis Atlanta developers have been hinting about wooing for months. That’s the scoop a few minutes ago from the real-estate reporting tornado known as Jarred Schenke at Bisnow Atlanta. It’s also consistent with a hint I received a last week from a separate source, who…
A Time Magazine article reminds of me of some of the work that Walter Brown and Green Street Properties have been doing in LEED administration. As we reported in January, Green Street performed LEED administration on one sizable, existing Manhattan tower, performed a LEED feasibility study for another, and is in the hunt for more…
